Falling Apart..

so she moved.queen B was officially on the other side of the country.it was the furthest her dad's ever been transferred,so yeah,it was more than a little dismaying..

but okay,i could've dealt with that.she was my best friend and all,but at least i had merry,you know.she didn't have anybody all the way over there.

boy was i wrong.

turns out she'd had quite a lot of people to be with...

i first started noticing things were wierd when she started being vague about some matters.the first couple of months she was stuck in a school she didn't like with people she couldn't stand.

so they made her get a transfer.she moved to a different school.and then she was as happy as could be.when i'd call she'd babble away about how sweet her friends were and how nicely they'd welcomed her and how all the cute guys were asking her out now,and whatnot..

so there was me going "yay,she's finally settling in now,good for her"

she settled in,but gradually as the months went by,i started to notice some changes.so did merry,and we were concerned.because her stories of school and friends just kept getting more outrageous as the days passed..her group of friends wasn't one i'd ever have chosen for myself,let alone her.one day she called and she's going "haha,today school was so much fun, we were getting soo bored so we decided to get up the third storey and chuck stuff out the window"

and there's me going "uhhhrmm...r-ight.okay"

another day she's liable to come up with a pic of herself completely shoving herself in a guys lap,or taking pics of her butt and whatnot.i was alarmed,okay.she was turning into a regular paris hilton and there was nothing i was saying that would sink through that majorly thick skull of hers.me and merry,we tried.we really did.she stayed in karachi two years and we did everything we could to get her to stop the crazy antics.because thats not who she was and thats certainly not who we are.it was getting ridiculous..and its not like she was getting any great guidance from her family...her sisters were completely engrossed in their own little world and her parents,they had issues of their own.her mom was fiercely independent and career's always seemed to be a bigger priority than actually sticking around to guide your kid.so we were on our own.

and nothing we said or told her did any good.we've had the most fights we've ever had in those two years she was there because we kept trying to stick some sense in her head and she refused to listen to either of us...

and then when those two years were up,her dad transferred.yes,again.life is crazy for us that way.

and he transferred here.right in the city where me and merry were.well,technically,my place is the furthest,it's a forty minute drive from merry's house,but where queen B was moving was literally a ten minute walking distance from her house.

so she's moved,we should be ecstatic right?now we get to see her all the time,she lives right here,it can be like it was when we were thirteen,we can be a threesome again,right

wrong.

everything was okay in the first week.but then queen B joined the same school merry was at.

thats when we started getting the funny,wary glances.because queen B was just as rambunctious in this school as she'd been in the previous one.whenever people mentioned her and i said "oh yeah,her,she's my best friend" i am not exaggerating here,people would actually raise their eyebrows and eye me warily,as if to say "seriously,you're friends with her?"

and i was even more conscious of the changes in her now because she was now right in front of me.i could see her acting up,cutting class,getting into trouble,sneaking out of class to meet guys, drawing attention to herself by acting obnoxious...it was just really really embarassing for me..

but theres not exactly anything i could do about it.whenever i tried to mention to her that she was making a complete ass of herself,people were laughing at her and thought she was completely dense in the head,she'd just call me a prude and laugh at me.what could you do with such a person

it had been building up...this wall,that was suddenly coming up between us.i and merry were on one side of it and she was on another.it wouldn't take much to come between us on a permanent basis,i could feel that.we couldn't keep walking this thin wire like we were,one of us was going to fall off sooner or later if we tried to keep things going the way they were...it wouldn't have taken anything monumental to split us apart...

and just then...it did..